Use case….store private generated keys for SSL Renewals.
A .key file cannot currently be uploaded.
Use case….store private generated keys for SSL Renewals.
A .key file cannot currently be uploaded.
Maybe but really private keys should never leave the machine they were generated on. This is part of why the whole CSR process is a thing.
Agreed in theory. However, the person who buys the SSL Cert is not always the one installing the Cert. If the cert ever needs to be converted to a different format, the private key is needed.
I just zip whatever file types are not allowed and then upload that. Not as convenient but does the job.
davesmith87 A .key file is a text file so you could rename to .key.txt. Or compress to a zip file as we have had to do forever. I agree, it would be nice if the file picker wasn't so picky.
Because the key file is text, you could copy and paste into any one of a number of notes fields, however you are tracking the certificate.
Best practices is a worthy and lofty goal, but doesn't always take into account what has to happen to get the job done.
This will be in 25.02 - https://tasks.dev.itflow.org/task_details.php?task_id=77
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Long term: We're planning on making the allowed file extensions configurable.
Assume most of us are doing zip archive with all the key and cert file, as related item for cert domain, which i think is the best, cause you can also add a pass to the zip, if you wanna add extra layer of security on it.